Create your own at Storyboard Thatin june of 1896 there was a family who lived in britain who worked as farmers in June 1911 there was a family who lived in Manchester, England There names were henry, max and Lilly thompson they wanted to leave England and move to Canada for a better life because money was scarce and also there were other economic problems lets move to New Brunswick there is alot of land to farm and we can make more money they decided to pack up their goods for the journey and go by ship with others the Thompson family boarded the S.S empress of Britain and then headed towards Quebec they sailed for a couple of weeks due to some bad weather